At Bryn Mawr College, students are challenged to go beyond traditional language instruction in order to gain a greater understanding of the richness and diversity of Hispanic culture and its continuing impact on the U.S. and the world. Our courses draw upon an abundant and complex cultural legacy that includes Spanish, Latin American and Latino authors, thinkers, filmmakers, literary genres, political figures and movements: Cervantes, Teresa de Jesús, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Elena Poniatowska, Miguel de Unamuno, Jorge Luis Borges, José Martí, Federico García Lorca, Frida Kahlo, Isabel Allende, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel García Márquez, María de Zayas, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Luis Buñuel, Alejo Carpentier, Pedro Almodóvar, Gloria Anzaldúa, the picaresque, Al-Andalus, the Jewish Diaspora, modern state-formation, the Spanish Civil War, liberation theology, and African Hispanophone literature.